ELDERLY people were today warned not to buy expensive but poor quality furniture from doorstep callers.

Officers from Rugeley urged people not to be ripped off after a van was spotted in the Attlee Crescent, Springfield Avenue and Lockside View, targeting pensioners with overpriced three-piece suites, claiming they were leather.

No one bought goods on that occasion but four days earlier, a pensioner in Lodge Road was approached by two men in a van who sold her what she thought was a black leather settee for £425, which turned out to be fake.